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In reply to the discussion: Dear mother of Gawd, I am tired of arguing with rocks [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)are DOMESTIC calls. The FISA court has no jurisdiction over Domestic Intel. Eg, if the FBI identifies some Right Wing Anti Government Survivalists plotting to bomb a Fed Bldg and they need to monitor their phone calls, they CANNOT GET A WARRANT from the FISA Court! Where would they go for such a warrant? NOT the FISA Court.
Again, the question everyone is asking, mostly now NOT on their phones for obvious reasons, is how the hell they got this warrant to spy on the American people??
I realize it's easier to keep insisting we are talking about Foreign Intel, but we are not. We are talking about our own Telecoms and we are talking about Domestic calls. There is no way that this can be manipulated into 'foreign' in order to make it fit the law. Square pegs don't fit into round holes.
Even the President didn't try to turn this into something it isn't, although his attempt to explain it raised more questions than answers.